First tiebreaker in regular play, and a lot had to happen to get there. Second had to decide to ignore third and somehow decide her best wager was, on a miss, to have the exact score that first would have if she bet to cover and missed. Then first had to make that cover wager when it wasn't likely to be necessary.

So that was sudden death?
If you ring in and are wrong it’s over? Other player doesn’t have to guess right after?

Yes. Otherwise players would just buzz in ASAP no matter what the clue is.

One of the situations where you probably shouldn’t go for the tie if you are slow on the buzzer. Chances that Sarah (?) didn’t know the answer on that specific tiebreaker question are very low imo.

She must have added a dollar to her wager as a math error. She could have bet the even number and won by a dollar. Glad the fool that made the mistake lost. Besides the champ is a J! Cutie.

Her wager is stupid anyway. Betting between 3401 and 3599 makes sure she stays ahead of Scott in any case and moves past Laura if she’s right and Laura wrong or if both of them are wrong and Laura wagered more than 6999.

True. Forgot about third which she did obviously. Just trying to figure how she got to her number.

What did y'all think of FJ? I didn't *know* the answer, but thought it easy (for a Jeopardy! contestant) to deduce. But maybe I'm biased.

not easy at all. european geography is going to be tougher for the average contestant beyond capitals, alps, pyrenees, mediterranean, seine, thames, and danube. with this lot who couldn't get "ruhr" even when given the ru? nope.

I might have gotten there eventually, but in a couple of minutes, not 30 seconds. When time was up, I was still thinking if there’s a group of islands around the Isle of Man, what they would be called and why that answer was probably wrong anyway.

But I thought the tiebreaker question would have made for a good $400 clue.

My logic: Normans came from France*. Also Normandy is in France. So "Norman Islands" that are sorta kinda part of the UK are probably between the UK mainland and France. Hence Channel Islands.

Two of them guessed islands which aren't parts of different countries (Faroe Islands are at least closest to the UK). Like, they couldn't think of an island group associated with Britain? Am I off base to think this unusual of a Jeopardy! contestant. Channel Islands seems the most obvious U.K island group but there's also Hebridean, Shetland, Orkney...


*Modern day France.

Tiebreaker was a decent $200 ($400 DJ) clue. I presume it came from an upcoming category - wonder if they burn the category or not.

She posted on reddit that she meant to subtract a dollar from 4800 but was stressed and added a dollar lol.

Presumably she forgot about covering third or thought he would get it wrong and was trying to cover an 8200 dollar bet by the leader where both get it wrong by betting 4800-1. Obv I agree she should bet to cover the leader missing and third doubling up though, but still unfortunate for her.

She was a Jeopardy 10, but seemed to have the personality of a piece of paper

She still is. She's very timid, but some guys like that sort of thing.

Something beneath the surface there- say Maggie G in Secretary.

August 4th 1921... “Baseball scorns freed black ____”

What are slaves?

Yikes

Goofy response, but tbh, major league baseball was whites-only at the time.

Even I froze on that one, but LOL'd when I realized my mistake. That's what the current trend of identity politics can do to you, I guess.

I seriously laughed at that one.

For some weird reason that response reminded me of the “age of consent” answer.

FYI: The kid in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory that dressed up like a cowboy is going to be on Jeopardy! tomorrow

A bit of an eerie coincidence, Stephen Hawking was an answer on Jeopardy today, the same day he died. Weird.

Anyone else bewildered by the FJ answer being Cerberus? My first thought was minotaur and then considered Cerberus, but the clue said "both ears". Um... Cerberus has 6 ears. What the ****. What a horrible clue.

I thought of Cerberus immediately, but that's probably because I was unaware of it having 6 ears.

The clue was: Notice the quotation marks. I don’t know if Hesiod was quoted correctly, but if he was the clue is perfectly fine no matter how many ears Cerberus has.

If the clue is “Sean Spicer said this presidents inauguration had the largest crowd in history” the answer involves a guy with small hands.

I had no idea Cerberus has 6 ears, but in hindsight that’s the most likely number given that he has 3 heads.

Obviously if Hesiod was quoted directly and he was talking about Cerberus, then yes, factually the answer is Cerberus. I'm not arguing that the answer should be something else. My point is that, just like 80% of the clues in Jeopardy, you're not necessarily expected to know the actual answer, but rather figure out the answer by the context of the clue. And the context of this clue is some mythical creature with a tail, two ears, and has something to do with a place that people enter and exit. A basic knowledge of mythology should lead someone to two possible answers: Cerberus in regards to Hades, and the minotaur guarding the labyrinth. And it is a terrible Final Jeopardy where the basic knowledge of Cerberus having 3 heads, and therefore 6 ears, would push someone away from that answer. It's ridiculous.

I don’t disagree, but if you have that basic knowledge, you should be able to rule out the Minotaur because a creature with a human body probably doesn’t have a tail.

FWIW, I got curious and looked it up. In Hesiod’s Theogony where Cerberus is first mentioned, it actually had 50 heads. Only later poets gave it three heads.